The iPhone SE (2022) and Google Pixel 5A are our two top picks under $500, but a range of devices from Motorola, TCL, and Samsung make for great choices at every price. You can get a great smartphone at this price, whether you want an iPhone, a 90Hz screen, or 5G support Continue reading…
Read MoreJane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: Experts say chipmakers lack the ability to track where many of their lower-end products end up, which could stymie the enforcement of new sanctions on Russia — When Silicon Valley chipmaker Marvell learned that one of its chips was found in a Russian surveillance drone recovered in 2016, it set
Read MoreThere are uncountable troubling things about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but somewhere near the top of the list is the fate of Chernobyl. The nuclear power plant blew its top in 1986, contaminating the entire region with dangerous radiation levels. Russia took the facility on the first day of the invasion, and as many feared,
Read MoreThe Oversight Committee is demanding answers. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has launched an investigation into Amazon’s labor practices around severe weather events, focusing on the company’s Illinois warehouse where six people died in a tornado strike last winter. The committee is seeking documents and
Read MoreEdward Ongweso Jr / VICE: Discord servers of some NFT projects, including BAYC, were compromised on Friday as part of a phishing scam seeking to trick users into “minting” fake NFTs — This isn’t the first hack of Discord-based crypto communities, and it’s not likely to be the last.
Read MoreMistakes happen. Thankfully, eBay has a one-hour grace period for buyers or sellers to cancel an order if they didn’t mean to buy or sell an item. However, once that hour has passed, it will be up to the seller and buyer to negotiate a resolution. Here’s how to cancel an order on eBay. Read
Read MoreWhile some places may be returning to some sense of normalcy, there are still a lot of people who are working remotely or studying from home, and thus the demand for the best Mac webcams remains high. That’s because a lot of communication is now done virtually through video calls, whether it’s on Skype, FaceTime,
Read MoreDan Primack / Axios: Bond Capital, the growth equity firm co-founded by Mary Meeker, raises $2.5B for its third fund — Bond Capital, the growth equity firm co-founded by Mary Meeker, has raised $2.5 billion for its third fund, Axios has learned. — Why it matters: Many growth equity investors …
Read MoreNASA’s Space Launch System on the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center | Photo by Loren Grush / The Verge For the next three days, NASA is staging an elaborate dress rehearsal with its massive new rocket, the Space Launch System — practicing all of the major steps the agency will have to perform when the
Read MoreSquare Enix If you’re like me and still recovering from the emotional devastation of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, take heart; it’s time for a Newfound Adventure. Patch 6.1 Newfound Adventure is the first major content patch for Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker. In a Live Letter developer presentation, game director Naoki Yoshida revealed details about the
Read More[Oleg Kutkov] decided to build a wideband SDR – for satellite communication research and monitoring, you know, the usual. He decided on a battery of HackRF boards – entire eight of them, in fact. Two 1×4 and one 1×2 RF splitters and an LNA on their combined RF input made for a good start to
Read MoreNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has set innumerable records during its three decades of service, but the latest might be its most impressive feat yet. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) used Hubble to spot the most distant star ever, a whopping 12.8 billion light years away. Hubble itself can’t
Read MoreUber and Lyft have legally cemented the independent contractor status of ride-hail drivers. Now other states are on the horizon.
Read MoreAndy Chalk / PC Gamer: Twitch stops its Boost Train test, which let users boost a channel by purchasing subscriptions and bits, after it was used to push porn to the site’s front page — It was bound to happen. — Audio player loading… In October 2021, Twitch began testing a new feature that enabled
Read MoreLeft Behind alerts, a feature that was originally missing with the initial launch of AirTag, is now available. Here’s how to enable it. It only took a few years of rumors and speculation, but 2021 was the year that Apple finally released the AirTag. The AirTag is Apple’s first entry into the crowded market of
Read MoreJessica Toonkel / The Information: Sources: at a recent employee town hall and a management offsite meeting, Netflix executives cautioned employees to be more careful about spending and hiring — Netflix is tightening its belt. — In two separate meetings over the past few weeks, Netflix executives cautioned employees …
Read MoreAs the world begins to slowly pull itself out of the economic effects of the pandemic, there’s one story that has been on our minds for the past couple of years, and it’s probably on yours too. The chip shortage born during those first months of the pandemic has remained with us despite the best
Read MoreFacebook is all about finding and adding your friends to your profile. So when you set up your account for the first time, it’s time to think of every single person you’ve ever encountered in your entire life, figure out their name, and start looking for them on Facebook. After all, don’t we want to
Read MoreDean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Justin Kan’s game-focused NFT marketplace Fractal has raised a $35M seed led by Paradigm and Multicoin Capital, with a16z, Solana Labs, and others participating — Twitch cofounder Justin Kan’s Fractal has raised $35 million to build out its marketplace for gaming non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Read MoreThe Google Pixel 6 Pro holds one of the top spots in the Android smartphone market and is asking slightly less than the competition. While multiple flagship handsets have challenged Google’s best, all of them have been priced just a little higher, giving it the edge when it comes to value. The OnePlus 10 Pro
Read MoreJoin Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi for your weekly review of the best projects, hacks, and bits of news that we can cram into 45 minutes or so. We’ll look at the latest developments in DIY air-powered engines, discuss the whimsical combination of GitHub’s API and a cheap thermal printer, and
Read MoreWorkers at Amazon’s Staten Island fulfillment center voted whether to unionize | Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images With a few dozen votes left to count, workers at an Amazon warehouse in New York City appear to have enough votes to unionize. The final tally was 2,654 yes votes, and 2,131, with 67 challenges. The
Read MoreCannabis bill to decriminalize gets a vote in the House | Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images The US House of Representatives voted Friday to approve a bill that would decriminalize cannabis at the federal level. It’s a first step toward making the drug legal and attempting to undo some of the damage caused by punitive
Read MoreThousands of workers beat the odds and voted to become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the US.
Read MoreAnnie Palmer / CNBC: Workers at Amazon’s Staten Island facilities have secured enough votes to unionize, by a 2,654-2,131 margin, a first for an Amazon warehouse in the US — – Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted Friday to join a union, the first time that’s happened at one of the company’s U.S.
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